Hacked Computer

[fandango]

Chuckle.... this thread is going "the wrong way"...

[Indestructable]

My hotmail was hacked, they then asked Pokerstars for a password reminder which was of course sent to hotmail. They were reading these emails and then deleting so I had no idea that this was going on. I hadn"t played on stars for a few months so hadn"t noticed this was situation.
They then used 5 stolen cards to credit my stars account over a few days, they then lost this money (presumably to someone else in on it).

I tried to sign on to Stars but password was invalid. Having contacted them they then told me what was going on. After more digging, it transpires that my hotmail had been accessed in various countries or was giving the impression that it had. I think Stars accept that it wasn"t me doing this and from a conversation it sounds like they have a lot of this going on at the moment. I also have the feeling that they had a good idea on how the hotmail was hacked, possibly that my hotmail password was the same or similar to a password that I used elsewhere. As a result I have changed the password on every site I use.
They did ask me to refund them the missing monies as my Stars account is effectively overdrawn. I politely declined and my main argument is that the activity was so obviously out of synch with my past behaviour on the account and that they should not have accepted credits from 5 different cards over a few days and that it was obviously dodgy. Haven"t heard any more but they won"t let me play on Stars again unless I repay them.
Thankfully only a few dollars lost, but went through a load of hassle.

[ferg01]

hi all, its still happening, F/B hotmail paypal spreadex bank all done, F/B and paypal both gave me the chance to have a text alert when an unknown IP address was trying to log in to my acc,s twice last night somebody in the Nottingham area tried to log-in, on sunday opened e-mail from dust till dawn about free game, when i opened the link nothing was there, G/L all

[WYoung83]

http://www.highstakesdb.com/2767-daniel-negreanus-email-and-pokerstars-account-hacked.aspx

[Rpokerj]

Think you wont get this much of a problem with Google Chrome/ Firefox.

Heard about this now, and i think the browser protection needs to be higher on IE, so Firefox or chrome!